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What could your distro learn from another distro? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system".
I also think we could learn website design from.. looks at notes ..everyone else.

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[–] breadsmasher 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why can’t the installation create aliases like

flatpak run jellyfin-media-player ? And then highlight conflicts during?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It would also be nice if it could alias to the normal command, for example, LibreOffice with CLI commands like lowriter or localc.

Did you know you can evoke LibreOffice from the terminal to convert one file format to another? It can do what Pandoc does, but also works on old .doc files. Flatpak's weird CLI behavior makes it difficult to use though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ask the devs. I haven't bothered asking so far. There's fp https://github.com/DLopezJr/fp but I don't like workaround if it's easily fixed upstream and it's not like they wouldn't know that it's bullshit. Maybe they can't decide upon a solution. Or are waiting for another important and relevant update.

Edit: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/994